scruffy

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: scruff=y

OXFORD DICTIONARY

scruffy, adj. (scruffier, scruffiest) colloq. shabby, slovenly, untidy.

Derivative

scruffily adv. scruffiness n.

Etymology

scruff var. of SCURF + -Y(1)

THESAURUS

scruffy

abject, abominable, arrant, atrocious, base, beggarly, beneath contempt, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debased, degraded, depraved, despicable, dingy, dirty, disgusting, dowdy, down-at-heel, down-at-the-heels, dusty, execrable, flagrant, foul, frayed, frazzled, full of holes, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grave, grimy, gross, grubby, grungy, heinous, holey, in rags, in shreds, in tatters, little, low, low-down, lumpen, mangy, mean, measly, meretricious, messy, miry, miserable, monstrous, moth-eaten, muddy, nefarious, obnoxious, odious, paltry, patchy, pathetic, petty, pitiable, pitiful, poky, poor, ragged, raggedy, rank, ratty, reptilian, rubbishy, run-down, sad, scabby, scrubby, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, seedy, shabby, shoddy, slovenly, small, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy, sooty, sorry, squalid, tacky, tattered, tatty, threadbare, torn, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unmentionable, untidy, valueless, vile, worthless, wretched